Utah River, Frogs Bounce Back
In the late 1990s, biologists and hydrologists set about restoring Utah’s Provo River. The river had been dammed and forced into channels. Now, nine years later, the river’s had a major turnaround, and so has a creature that had all but disappeared – the Columbia Spotted Frog. Beth Hoffman reports.
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